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Aerospike Certification Tool enables ISVs and enterprise IT organizations to determine the best solid-state drives for their real-time big data applications

Mountain View, CA – December 19, 2012 – Flash technology is emerging rapidly as the storage solution of choice for real-time big data applications, and it is easy to see why. For a street price of just $720 and only 0.3 watts of power, a 1 TB solid-state drive (SSD) system can handle more than 245,000 reads/writes per second—making flash storage powerful, cost-effective, and energy efficient. However, not all SSDs are equal when it comes to database performance.

To address the challenge, Aerospike announced today that it is making the Aerospike Certification Tool (ACT) for benchmarking solid-state drives available as open source software. ACT runs on Linux, and it can be downloaded at http://github.com/aerospike/act. With ACT now available as open source code, SSD vendors can more readily tune their drives for today’s real-time big-data demands, and application developers, enterprise IT organizations, and database companies can easily benchmark competing drives’ performance and determine the models that best support their specific data management use cases.

Aerospike first developed ACT to support customers taking advantage of SSD optimizations built into the Aerospike real-time NoSQL database and key-value store (http://www.aerospike.com/performance/architecture/). A native flash database, such as Aerospike, delivers predictable high performance with specific access patterns (http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/12/10/switch-your-databases-to-flash-storage-now-or-youre-doing-it.html) that take advantage of large block writes and random read capabilities inherent to flash storage. ACT automates the measurement of read latency during sustained large block write loads over extended periods of time and enables developers to determine if a drive is capable of meeting their high throughput, low latency requirements. Today, Aerospike has published test results for several SSD models from Fusion-io, Intel, OCZ, and Samsung. These results can be viewed at http://www.aerospike.com/blog/act-ssd-benchmark.

“From the start, we recognized that a database optimized for flash would be ideal for an emerging new class of applications that rely on fast big data,” said Brian Bulkowski, Aerospike founder and CTO. “With ACT, we want to accelerate the development and industry-wide adoption of SSDs that can reliably support interactive, consumer-facing big data applications where real-time response is critical, and failure is not an option.”

“We recently compared the performance of data-in-flash, using databases such as Aerospike, with that of data-in-DRAM used by other NoSQL databases, and we discovered up to a 17-times cost advantage of data-in-flash over data-in-DRAM (http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Data_in_DRAM_is_a_Flash_in_the_Pan),” said David Floyer, resident CTO of Wikibon. “We applaud Aerospike’s move to make its ACT benchmark program available as open source code. It will be a valuable evaluation tool for ISVs and IT executives who seek to gain a competitive edge through the performance and cost advantages of flash technology.”

About Aerospike
Aerospike, Inc. offers the only real-time NoSQL database and key-value store that delivers predictable high performance for mission-critical, Web-scale applications. Aerospike’s flash-optimized, shared-nothing architecture scales linearly, consistently processing over 500k transactions per second per node with sub-millisecond latency. With automatic fail-over, replication, and cross data center synchronization, the Aerospike database reliably stores billions of objects and terabytes of data—while providing 100% uptime and 17x improvement in TCO over other NoSQL databases. Customers accelerating their business with Aerospike include adMarketplace, Bluekai, eXelate, Sony’s So-net, and The Trade Desk. For more information, visit http://Aerospike.com.

Aerospike is a registered trademark of Aerospike, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Palo Alto, CA – December 19, 2012 – Fewer enterprises are locking themselves into one deployment model. Instead, they are implementing applications on-premise, in the cloud, and in hybrid environments—depending on the model that best suits their privacy, service-level agreement (SLA), and requirements for a given project. WSO2 provides these organizations unprecedented deployment flexibility with today’s launch of WSO2 Carbon 4.0 (http://wso2.com/products/carbon/), the industry’s first enterprise middleware platform designed from the core to run both on-premise and in the cloud. WSO2 also announced today:
* Updates to the major WSO2 Carbon 4.0 products with added capabilities for cloud integration, security, auto-scaling, big data, and high availability (HA).
* WSO2 Stratos 1.6 (http://wso2.com/cloud/stratos/), the newest release of WSO2’s cloud middleware platform, which enables enterprises to deploy a platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
* New release of WSO2 StratosLive (http://wso2.com/cloud/stratoslive/), the PaaS hosted by WSO2, which is powered by WSO2 Stratos 1.6 and WSO2 Carbon 4.0 software.

The latest release of WSO2’s award-winning 100% open source WSO2 Carbon platform adds multi-tenancy to all 13 WSO2 Carbon middleware products. Running directly on server hardware or in a virtualized environment, such as an Amazon or VMware cloud, these products can bring the efficiencies of multi-tenancy and self-service to on-premise deployments. Additionally, the cloud-ready WSO2 Carbon 4.0 middleware products can plug into WSO2 Stratos and operate as part of a PaaS, adding cloud-native capabilities, such as elastic scaling, expanded self-service provisioning, metering, billing, and storage, among others. The move brings unprecedented ease to IT professionals, who can write an application once and then simply deploy it on the same middleware on-premise, on a PaaS, or in a hybrid environment.

“We realized from a very early stage that enterprises need to implement their applications and services flexibly and seamlessly, both on-premise and in the cloud, as their business and IT demands change,” said Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder and CTO. “The launch of WSO2 Carbon 4.0 defines a new level of simplicity in addressing this demand. Using our middleware, enterprises know that their investment in tools and applications is protected whether they want to deploy on-premise, in a private cloud or in a public cloud.”

WSO2 Carbon 4.0 Core Capabilities
WSO2 Carbon is the industry’s first fully componentized middleware platform for creating, running and managing composite applications and Web services within a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud environment. Built on the OSGi specification, WSO2 Carbon lets developers easily deploy and customize any of its WSO2 Carbon-based middleware products, and the 175-plus components on which they are comprised, providing greater flexibility and agility to meet changing enterprise demands.

The inherent multi-tenancy now available within the Carbon core allows organizations to manage isolation between departments, partners or simply between separate development groups. Additionally, it enables organizations to build software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. The result is that organizations have much a wider choice in how they implement multi-tenancy, and they can now choose to use multi-tenancy with or without running the software on cloud infrastructure.

Other new important capabilities are also targeted at large-scale deployment, including improved capabilities around large clusters and high scalability, separation of management and worker nodes, and enhanced deployment synchronization of code. Also enabled is support for the Java Developer Kit (JDK) 1.7 and the Equinox 3.7 software developer kit (SDK) for OSGi.

Elastic Load Balancing and Auto-Scaling On-Premise and in the Cloud
The WSO2 Elastic Load Balancer (WSO2 ELB) (http://wso2.com/products/elastic-load-balancer/) offers a lean approach to balance loads across WSO2 service instances on-premise or in the cloud. It provides multi-tenancy, fail-over, and auto-scaling of services in line with dynamically changing load characteristics. Version 1.0 of WSO2 ELB was launched in 2011 as functionality within the WSO2 Carbon core framework and WSO2 Stratos 1.5. With the new Version 2.0, WSO2 ELB is a full, separately downloadable product. WSO2 ELB 2.0 also adds several new capabilities, including:
* Tenant-aware and service-aware load balancing provides a scalable approach for balancing the load across a set of tenants sharing a collection of worker nodes, and it enables balancing across shared service clusters or different service clusters.
* Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) independent elasticity supports widely adopted platforms, such as Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2), Eucalyptus, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, OpenStack, and VMware ESX.
* Cloud bursting to hybrid clouds lets enterprises extend their data center’s processing capabilities by leveraging the compute power available on public clouds, such as Amazon EC2. Bursting can span across public and private clouds using different IaaS providers at the same time.
* Elastic scaling of worker nodes makes it possible to start or terminate nodes based on need; scaling can occur simultaneously across multiple underlying IaaS.
* “Private jet” mode for tenants allows some tenants to deploy in a single-tenant mode; clusters are isolated for special privileges, such as priority processing, user-based customized actions, and improved performance.
* Dynamic Discovery allows WSO2 ESB to dynamically discover worker nodes, add or remove nodes without restarting the system, and add or remove entire clusters dynamically.

High Availability and Big Data Support
The newest releases of the WSO2 Message Broker (http://wso2.com/products/message-broker/) and WSO2 Complex Event Processor (WSO2 CEP) (http://wso2.com/products/complex-event-processor/) complement the recently launched WSO2 Business Activity Monitor (WSO2 BAM) 2.0 to support the high volume, high availability, big data demands of the cloud.

WSO2 Message Broker 2.0 is now the industry’s only open source big data message broker, utilizing Apache Hadoop to provide backend storage that can scale dynamically and elastically. Version 2.0 also adds high availability (HA) support with a complete hot-to-hot continuous availability mode, the ability to scale up to several servers in a cluster, and no single point of failure. Featuring a re-architected core for high scalability and performance, WSO2 Message Broker 2.0 is designed to manage persistent messaging and large numbers of queues, subscribers and messages.

WSO2 CEP 2.0 features a new CEP engine, named Siddhi, which runs up to 10x faster than the previous open source engine. Support for clustering and the high-performance Apache Thrift transport also significantly enhance the newest release’s performance. Notably, the WSO2 CEP 2.0 server can work with WSO2 BAM 2.0 (http://wso2.com/products/business-activity-monitor/)—which supports Apache Thrift, Apache Cassandra and Apache Hadoop—to perform real-time analytics on big data and gain visibility into up-to-the-minute trends. (For more information on WSO2 BAM 2.0, see the release dated September 18, 2012).

Cloud and Web Integration
Central to cloud and Web integration are the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB) and WSO2 Governance Registry.

WSO2 ESB 4.5 features a new approach to enable mediation libraries, which allow WSO2, as well as customers and partners, to quickly plug in adapters for cloud- and Web-based systems. With this release, WSO2 is introducing new adaptors for SugarCRM, Twitter, Salesforce.com, LinkedIn and other cloud systems. Other enhancements include integration of WSO2’s SAP adaptor into WSO2 ESB 4.5, support for Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) to facilitate interoperability with .NET, enhanced REST and mobile support with JSON streaming, enhanced performance, and improved API handling.

Governance Registry 4.5 adds integration with GitHub, the popular Web-based hosting service for software development projects. Also included is integration with the popular Apache Subversion (SVN) code repository. It also offers a new lifecycle audit function to produce a log of what has occurred, enhanced usability and manageability, and risk and compliance capabilities.

Enhanced Cloud Security with WSO2 Identity Server
WSO2 Identity Server 4.0 (http://wso2.com/products/identity-server/) adds Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) support for identity provisioning to facilitate user management operations across SaaS applications. Additionally, the latest version features federated identity provider (IdP) functionality, which allows different organizations to make shared services available—for example different universities sharing certain resources with each other’s faculty or students—while enabling single sign-on simplicity for end users. Such federated IdP is particularly important for facilitating authentication across extremely large deployments associated with the cloud.

WSO2 Identity Server is complemented by the WSO2 Cloud Gateway 1.0, first launched in 2010, which provides a secure connection between applications behind the firewall and public PaaS or SaaS offerings.

Application Manager Expands Tomcat 7 and JavaScript Support
With Version 5.0, WSO2 Application Server (http://wso2.com/products/application-server/) absorbs all of the capabilities of the WSO2 Mashup Server, enabling JavaScript authors to consume, compose and emit Web services, feeds, scraped Web pages, email, and instant messages. It also supports the Apache CXF open source services framework, which facilitates the ability to port Tomcat 7 on top. Additionally, WSO2 Application Server 5.0 supports Jaggery, the open source JavaScript server-side scripting engine, which combines the strength of JavaScript with the flexibility and freedom of PHP-like scripting environments. With Jaggery, developers can use JavaScript to write all parts of Web applications and services, reducing or eliminating conversion mismatches across the different layers of the Web application and API development experience.

PaaS Deployments with WSO2 Stratos 1.6 and WSO2 StratosLive
The Java-based WSO2 Stratos 1.6 cloud middleware platform (http://wso2.com/cloud/stratos/) provides all of the features required to support robust cloud-native deployments of applications, services and processes in a private PaaS deployment. These include multi-tenancy, automatic metering and monitoring, auto-scaling, centralized governance and identity management, and single sign-on. The Cloud Manager in WSO2 Stratos offers point-and-click simplicity for configuring and provisioning middleware services, so developers can get started immediately and focus on the business logic, rather than configuring and deploying software systems.

WSO2 StratoLive (http://wso2.com/cloud/stratoslive/) provides a public PaaS option for enterprises that don’t want to implement their own IaaS and PaaS infrastructure. The newest release of StratosLive is hosted by WSO2 and powered by WSO2 Stratos 1.6 and the 13 WSO2 Carbon 4.0-based middleware products.

Availability and Support
WSO2 Carbon 4.0, WSO2 Stratos 1.6, and WSO2 StratosLive are in production and available today. As fully open source solutions released under the Apache License 2.0, they do not carry any licensing fees. Production support starts at $10,000 per server instance per year for WSO2 Carbon middleware and $30,000 per year for each WSO2 Stratos installation. The WSO2 StratosLive middleware PaaS is backed by a standard service-level agreement and is available at three paid subscription levels: SMB, Professional and Enterprise, as well as a free Demo subscription. For details on subscription pricing, visit http://wso2.com/cloud/stratoslive.

WSO2 Carbon 4.0, WSO2 Stratos 1.6, and WSO2 StratosLive are backed by a world-class technical team in which the experts that helped create the software provide support, leading to direct and immediate access to the people with in-depth knowledge of the middleware. In addition to production support, WSO2 service and support (http://wso2.com/support/) options include evaluation support, development support, and special QuickStartSM consulting programs.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

Trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Saaspose development team is proud to announce the new release of Saaspose.OCR. This new release offers an interesting feature for text extraction from remote images. In document manipulation tasks, you may come across scenarios where you want to extract text from a remotely stored image. This eliminates the need of uploading the image to local server or external storage provider and performs text extraction. Saaspose.OCR allows you to extract remote text from remote image URL using this feature-rich API in your applications. Saaspose.OCR extracts text from remotely stored images and recognizes a collection of characters from the extracted text. It is a platform independent REST API that supports different programming languages for optical character recognition and text extraction from remote image URLs. You just need to have remote URLs of the images and let Saaspose.OCR perform the rest of tasks involved in optical character recognition. For more details, please refer to Saaspose.OCR documentation. Saaspose.OCR API not only allows you to text extraction from remote image URL but you can also combine multiple REST APIs to enhance your application productivity. To get started with Saaspose.OCR, you only need to sign up at Saaspose and get application information. You can opt for free development account that enables you to evaluate all of our APIs.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Saaspose.OCR documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Saaspose.OCR for performing different tasks like the followings.

Saaspose.OCR is a platform independent REST API used for optical character recognition and document scanning. It allows developers to scan documents, extract text and recognize characters from the documents in the cloud. It supports OCR feature for whole image, partial image or a specific rectangular area of an image file. It can be used with languages like .NET, Java, PHP, Ruby, Rails, Python, jQuery & many others. It can also be integrated with other cloud services to process documents.

Jelastic, Inc., the company behind the ultra scalable and interoperable cloud hosting platform for Java and PHP applications, today announced that it has launched its Beta with local hosting partner Websolute. Jelastic is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that runs any Java or PHP application with no lock-in or code changes required.

"We are very excited to announce Beta with Websolute in Brazil," said Jelastic COO Dmitry Sotnikov. "Jelastic´s platform is rapidly gaining success around the world, and Websolute is an excellent partner for developers and SMBs in South America."

Jelastic is gaining significant momentum as the PaaS of choice worldwide. Luis Schedel, director of WebSolute explains why, "One of the greatest advantages of this sophisticated PaaS solution is that it is so easy to use. It does not require developers to change their code in any way and handles administrative tasks automatically."

Jelastic won Oracle´s Duke´s Choice Award for 2012, the Oscar of the Java community, for making cloud hosting extremely simple. Any developer can deploy an application to the cloud in minutes instead of hours, without making code changes. Applications also benefit from automatic scaling. CPU and RAM are instantly and automatically increased or decreased to ensure that applications have the resources they need and users pay only for the resources they use. It is very simple to manage environments to support the entire lifecycle of an application from development, to staging, to production.

Daniel Setton with Lembreteria, who participated in initial tests, said "easy" is the best word to define Websolute´s Jelastic. The solution, he said, makes life easier for the developer. "Vertical scaling is performed automatically when necessary, and horizontal scaling can be configured in just a few clicks. In fact, everything can be done in a few clicks."

Bruno Souza, director of the Society for Technology Users Java (SouJava), also confirms the benefits reported by other users. "Jelastic provides a flexible environment and independent data centers. This is interesting for developers, who can count on the support and speed of a local environment, but have the possibility to expand to other international environments," he concludes.

Websolute´s Jelastic PaaS supports a wide range of Java and PHP software stacks such as Tomcat, GlassFish, Jetty, Apache, NGINX application servers, as well as SQL (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB) database servers and memecached. It also integrates with popular build systems (Maven, Ant, Hudson, and Jenkins) as well as Eclipse IDE and IntelliJ IDEA IDE.

Websolute started in 2011 and succeeded LinkBR, founded in 2006. With a focus on web services and IT applications for small and medium businesses, the company services the hosting needs of over 600 thousand users and 59,000 registered companies. Websolute was the first authorized reseller of Parallels products in Brazil and, with its broad portfolio of products and solutions, the company is one of the 30 largest providers in the country. Websolute aims to spread the concept of "Cloud Computing" to all micro, small and medium companies. For more information about Websolute, visit www.websolute.com.br.

About Jelastic:

Jelastic, Inc., a startup company based in Palo Alto, Calif., makes the Java server hosting platform for developers and hosting service providers. Jelastic is the only PaaS offering designed specifically for hosting service providers to deploy and make available to their customers. Jelastic automatically scales Java and PHP applications and allocates server resources required by applications, thus delivering the true next generation Java and PHP cloud computing. You can learn more about Jelastic or sign-up for the service for free at http://jelastic.com.

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Email for Java 2.4.0. This month’s release addresses a number of important bug fixes related to PST operations that were observed while copying bulk of MapiMessages from one PST to another; and extraction of MapiCalendar items from a PST. In addition, issues with recurrence rules of Appointmnet/Meeting objects have now been fixed as well in this new version. The main improved features and bug fixes added in this release are listed below

Application crashed when meeting reply loaded into MapiMessage - .NET

LinkedResource has no Name

Application crashed when meeting reply loaded into MapiMessage - .NET

Trying to load a mailmessage into mapimessage resuls in Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Exceptions raised when bulk of MapiMessages copied from one PST to another PST

Aspose.Email for Java is a Non-Graphical Java component that enables Java applications to read and write Microsoft Outlook documents without utilizing Microsoft Outlook. It enables developers to create new MSG file from scratch, update an existing MSG file, read Outlook MSG file & get it's properties like subject, body, recipients in to, cc and bcc, Adding or removing attachment, sender information and MAPI properties. Aspose.Email for Java can be used with Web as well asDesktop Application.

Saaspose development team is proud to announce merging of multiple presentations using Saaspose.Slides REST API using Saaspose.Slides REST API. Saaspose.Slides is a REST API which allows you to process presentations; create, modify, and convert presentations in the cloud. You can get formatting information of a slide, replace text, convert presentations to other file formats, or you may choose to manage your slides. You can merge multiple presentations into a single presentation using Saaspose.Slides REST API in your application. All you need to do is upload all the input files on Saaspose Storage and execute this feature. Once the files are merged, you can download the merged presentation file from Saaspose Storage. Saaspose provides the support for uploading presentations on other storage servers as well such as Amazon S3 and Dropbox and execute the “merge multiple presentations” feature on the uploaded files. You can directly merge the presentations on your local system using Saaspose.Slides REST API and SDKs without saving the file to Saaspose Storage. It is a single call process that uses merge presentations controller resource ; it uploads the files to server, merges multiple presentations into a single presentation, sends the merged file back as response stream and deletes the source files from the server.You can merge multiple presentations into a single presentation and share it across any platform.You can refer to our documentation that guides through the features and examples of Saaspose.Slides. To get started with Saaspose.Slides API, you only need to sign up at Saaspose and get application information. You can opt for free development account that enables you to evaluate all of our APIs.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Saaspose.Slides documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Saaspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.

Saaspose.Slides is a REST based API that allows developers to read, write & modify a PowerPoint presentations in cloud. It is platform independent API & can be used by developers in web, desktop, mobile & cloud applications alike. It provides a rich set of features like creating presentation from scratch, modify various aspect of a presentation & converting a presentation to PDF, XPS, TIFF, SVG, HTML, PNG, JPEG, GIF & BMP formats. It helps you add, modify or extract text from the presentation.

Jelastic, Inc., the company behind the ultra scalable and interoperable cloud hosting platform for Java and PHP applications, today announced it has launched commercially in the United Kingdom and Ireland with local hosting partner Layershift. Jelastic is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that, with Layershift´s global hosting services, runs any Java or PHP application with no lock-in or code changes required.

"We are very excited to announce commercial availability in the UK and Ireland with Layershift," said Jelastic COO Dmitry Sotnikov. "We´ve already seen an extremely positive reaction from users, highlighting Layershift´s outstanding support quality and efficiency as a key factor promoting us against the competition."

Gal, co-founder of innovative startup PixMix, already hosting on Layershift´s Jelastic platform agrees, "Any given ticket I opened at any time of the day and night was answered in minutes. At first I considered it a one time occasion, but they kept doing it!"

Jelastic is gaining significant momentum as the PaaS of choice worldwide. Layershift Managing Director, Andrew Cranson explains why the platform is creating such excitement, "UK developers understand the importance of keeping servers local to their users, but they´re fed up with the system administration headaches of running their own servers. It eats up a lot of valuable time, which users prefer to spend developing cool new software! Layershift´s new innovative cloud platform is here to rescue UK Java and PHP developers from long deployment times and platform-specific programming."

Layershift customer Maciej Machulak, CEO of Cloud Identity Ltd, comments, "Our company develops web applications that have extremely high up-time requirements. Additionally, improvements to all our systems are introduced almost on a daily-basis. Our partnership with Jelastic and Layershift enabled us to introduce a zero touch deployment approach to all our applications that run on their infrastructure. It has also significantly increased the confidence that our clients have in our software. We look forward to expanding our collaboration as we run more and more of our systems in their environment."

Jelastic helps developers and SMBs save time and money with rapid deployment and auto-scaling magic. For enterprise users, it eliminates vendor lock-in and provides a cost-effective way to handle large or unpredictable workloads. Jelastic scales CPU or RAM resources up or down automatically to meet application and usage requirements, so users avoid paying for unused resources and applications always perform at their best.

Developers were recently handed a further productivity boost with the announcement of Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA plugins enabling direct control of their Jelastic hosting environments from within the IDE.

Layershift Limited is a global leader in high-quality managed hosting services with infrastructure in the UK, New York, and Singapore. Layershift´s team of virtualization and hosting industry professionals use more than a decade of experience to consistently deliver end-to-end excellence in all aspects of the company, backed by their renowned technical support team achieving exceptionally high customer satisfaction (rated above 97% in Q3 2012). To find out more about Layershift´s Cloud VPS, Jelastic Cloud PaaS, Dedicated Server and Complex Hosting services please visit http://www.layershift.com.

About PixMix

PixMix is a mobile application available on Android and iOS that makes it easy to share photos with others nearby. For instance, if you are celebrating a social event, like a birthday party, participants take pictures with PixMix and they are instantly shared with everyone else at the party, via a shared photo album. Learn more at http://thepixmix.com.

About Cloud Identity

Cloud Identity Ltd specializes in development of advanced Access and Identity Management (AIM) solutions for the Web. Company´s software and services are targeted mostly for small and medium businesses as well as individuals. The company also provides consulting services in the area of security on the Web to various businesses within and outside of Europe. The company has recently launched its platform on Jelastic at Layershift, which is available at https://www.smartam.net and https://developers.smartam.net

About Jelastic

Jelastic, Inc., a startup company based in Palo Alto, Calif., makes the Java server hosting platform for developers and hosting service providers. Jelastic is the only PaaS offering designed specifically for hosting service providers to deploy and make available to their customers. Jelastic automatically scales Java and PHP applications and allocates server resources required by applications, thus delivering the true next generation Java and PHP cloud computing. You can learn more about Jelastic or sign-up for the service for free at http://jelastic.com.

Saaspose development team is happy to announce the new release of Saaspose.Words. This new release allows splitting MS Word documents into separate documents using Saaspose.Words REST API. Saaspose.Words is a REST base API that helps to create, manipulate and convert documents to other file formats in the cloud. While working with your documents, you may come across scenarios where you want to split the large documents into smaller ones. You can split the documents into separate documents within the MS Word document or different file formats. Splitting one large document into smaller documents of different file formats is an important aspect in document manipulation tasks. It involves a series of steps that need to be performed for getting the desired results. Saaspose.Words eliminates the need of such complicated tasks and makes it hassle free. You can split your MS Word documents using Saaspose.Words REST API in your applications. Whether the size of your document is small or large, Saaspsose.Words splits hundreds of pages of a document into different documents. You may choose the file format while splitting the document such as PDF, image, MS Word documents, etc. Using this feature-rich API in your applications, you can split all pages of the document into new documents and maintain their file names as well. You can also choose to split specific pages to new documents from a single document. The formatting information and content of the document is maintained during the split process and the new files have the same formatting and style. You can directly split the documents on your local system using Saaspose.Words REST API and SDKs without saving the file to Saaspose Storage. It is a single call process that uses split document controller resource; it uploads the files to server, appends the files to the document, sends the converted file back as response stream and deletes the source files from the server. Saaspose.Words allows you to split apart MS Word documents into multiple documents with different file formats. You can divide and save pages of your MS Word documents into separate file uploaded at Amazon S3 storage. You need to upload the input document at Amazon S3 storage and execute the feature in your web or mobile applications. Saaspose.Words is a platform independent REST API and can be used with different programming languages such as .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby. You can utilize our SDK and REST examples to split MS Word documents in the cloud

Overview: Saaspose.Words

Saaspose.Words is a platform independent REST API used for cloud based document creation, manipulation & conversion. It allows converting document to DOC, DOCX, XPS, TIFF, PDF, HTML, SWF & many other formats. It can be used languages like .NET, Java, PHP, Ruby, Rails, Python, jQuery & many others. It can also be integrated with other cloud services to process documents. Other features include Create & modify watermark, content & formatting manipulation, mail merge abilities, reporting features.

Stimulsoft Company, a major manufacturer of reporting tools, announces the release of version 2012.3 of Stimulsoft Reports and Stimulsoft Reports.Fx product lines. The new version offers new helpful opportunities, convenient use on mobile devices and optimization of many functions.

The company developers designed two new report viewers for using in ASP.NET MVC projects. The first one, MvcViewer, is released as a part of the reporting tool Stimulsoft Reports.Web for MVC. It is based on HTML and AJAX, without any use of third-party technologies. The component supports all popular Internet browsers and all the necessary functions, such as printing a report in HTML and PDF, exporting reports with the ability to display the settings dialog box, bookmarks, and parameters panel.

The second report viewer is named MvcMobileViewer and constitutes a part of the reporting tool Stimulsoft Reports.Mobile. It was created using the HTML5 technology and is optimized to run on mobile devices (tablets, smartphones). Supports both mouse control and touch interface. It works on all modern browsers that support the HTML5 technology. Full screen mode is supported: the viewer size automatically adjusts to the screen size of a mobile device.

A long-expected opportunity of collapsing text blocks in the Cross-Tab component is added to the release 2012.3. It is possible to collapse the rows and columns in the rendered Cross-Tab component in the report viewer. It makes the report more interactive, and its contents easier to use.

Reporting tools for Flex, PHP and Java are united into the product line Stimulsoft Reports.Fx.

The major changes have been made in the reporting tool Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for Java, since Stimulsoft developers completely redesigned it. Previously, the product was a Java component with the report engine written in Flex. Starting with version 2012.3 Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for Java can be considered a pure Java product, since the report rendering is processed on Java. The product also added a new report viewer, written entirely in this technology. Stimulsoft Reports.Fx for Java can safely be called a full-fledged server component.

Stimulsoft is a leading supplier of components for creating reports under various platforms. Based on rich experience in the software development, Stimulsoft helps clients build mature applications of unprecedented complexity. The company´s products help thousands of developers around the world to provide its customers with reliable applications. Stimulsoft reporting tools are used by many companies from 100+ countries.

The long awaited version of Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services 1.9.0 has been released. In this release, we have provided support for SQL Server Reporting Services 2012; you may enable the Aspose.Cells.Report.Designer Client Tool provided by Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services and integrate it with Visual Studio for SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 as well. We have also enhanced the custom oriented Tab Delimited exporting options. We have improved the overall performance regarding render files and export with parameters and cells formatting. This version also fixes a number of internal and external bugs and includes several new enhancements, for example, the header and footer bug, certain issues with grouping data, hiding columns, merging data, page breaks and hyperlinks. There is also an improvement regarding Excel 2007/2010 file formats and conversions. This release includes plenty of new and improved features as listed below

MadCap was recognized in the Content Creation category for its native XML MadPak technical communications suite enabling single-source publishing to print, desktops, mobile and the Web

La Jolla, CA, USA – December 12, 2012 – MadCap Software, Inc. (http://www.madcapsoftware.com), the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Visual Studio and Microsoft XPS, today announced that it has been named to the 2012-2013 EContent 100 list in the Content Creation category. The EContent 100 list is selected by a panel of eight judges and recognizes the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry. To view the full list, visit http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/The-Top-100-Companies-in-the-Digital-Content-Industry-The-2012-2013-EContent-100-86248.htm.

“The digital content industry is constantly in flux, but perhaps never more so than in 2012,” said EContent magazine’s editor, Theresa Cramer. “Submissions for this year's EContent 100 list were better than ever, and consequently our judges had their work cut out for them. This year’s list still has many of the old standbys, but there are plenty of fresh faces as well--many of which are shaking up the content industry.”

“From the start, we have focused on delivering a superior experience to our customers, who recognize the strategic value of letting readers choose the way they receive content, whether it’s in print, on the Web, on desktops, or on their mobile devices,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. We are thrilled to be named to the 2012-2013 EContent 100 list, which validates our continued commitment to delivering a comprehensive technical communications suite with single-source publishing to all the channels that users rely on for their information today.”

One Source for Reaching Users Across Multiple Channels

MadPak is the industry’s most comprehensive authoring suite, featuring integrated, XML-based products for complete end-to-end technical communications. The suite features MadCap Flare for single-source, multi-channel publishing; MadCap Contributor for editing, reviewing and contributing to Flare content; MadCap Analyzer for analyzing Flare-based content; MadCap Capture for image capture and graphics editing; MadCap Mimic for publishing software simulation movies, video and audio, and MadCap Lingo for facilitating and streamlining the translation process. MadPak is now the content publishing solution of choice for thousands of companies worldwide, who are reducing project time anywhere from 30% to more than 400% (http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/flare/roi.aspx).

Unmatched integration through a native XML architecture enables an end-to-end content solution for publishing in print and on desktops, mobile devices, and the Web – in their language of choice. For example, authors can:
* Translate content in a Flare project using MadCap Lingo, without transferring files.
* Work within Analyzer to directly optimize content in a Flare project.
* Create linked variables in Flare, Mimic and Capture, so changes in Flare automatically occur in Mimic and Capture.

MadCap continues to lead the wave in single-source multi-channel publishing by addressing all the formats that businesses want to use today. With MadCap Flare, the same project can be published as WebHelp, HTML5 Help, interactive mobile Help, an eBook, PDF files, Word documents, and more. Easy creation of Quick Response (QR) codes with Flare means all of these formats can provide single-click access to the information users need. Additionally, team collaboration enabled by Microsoft SharePoint integration and version control through integration with both Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Apache SVN, is increasingly leading companies to bypass content management systems in favor of using MadPak.

About EContent Magazine

EContent magazine is a leading authority on the businesses of digital publishing, media, and marketing, targeting executives and decision-makers in these fast-changing markets. By covering the latest tools, strategies, and thought-leaders in the digital content ecosystem, EContent magazine and EContentmag.com keep professionals ahead of the curve in order to maximize their investment in digital content strategies while building sustainable, profitable business models. EContent magazine is a publication of Information Today, Inc.

About MadCap Software

MadCap Software, Inc. is a leading technical communication software firm specializing in integrated applications for end-to-end content development, delivery and management. MadCap’s software products provide state-of-the-art content workflow solutions for multi-channel publishing, including the Web, print, desktop and mobile. Through its strategic partner Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), MadCap delivers solutions optimized for Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and the .NET environment. Headquartered in La Jolla, CA, MadCap is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the documentation industry. Learn more about MadCap Software at www.madcapsoftware.com.

Palo Alto, CA – December 12, 2012 – Business activity monitoring (BAM) provides near real-time visibility into the processes, transactions and workflows that are exposed as services within a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Increasingly, enterprises are deploying BAM solutions to enhance the relevance and delivery of information that affects their business operations. On December 18, 2012, WSO2 will kick off a new three-part webinar series designed to help architects, developers, and engineers in TechOps and DevOps to take full advantage of the benefits provided by the newest release of WSO2 Business Activity Monitor 2.0.

The webinar series will explore project use cases to highlight how organizations can use WSO2 BAM 2.0 to optimize supply levels, adjust marketing campaigns, offer sales discounts, and hire additional resources. Additionally, the sessions will examine the advanced features and capabilities of WSO2 BAM 2.0 and how they can increase operational visibility, situational awareness, and business performance. The three webinars are:
• Enterprise Use Case Webinar: Analyzing the Effectiveness of Mobile and Web Channels Using WSO2 BAM – Tuesday, December 18, 2012
• WSO2 Advantage Webinar: Scaling Up WSO2 BAM for Billions of Requests and Terabytes of Data – Thursday, December 20, 2012
• WSO2 Advantage Webinar: WSO2 BAM2 Integration with Mule ESB – Thursday, January 10, 2013

Each session will run from 9 a.m.-10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. To learn more and register, visit http://wso2.com/landing/wso2-bam-webinar-series.

Analyzing the Effectiveness of Mobile and Web Channels
Even as Web and mobile channels enable customers to engage in e-commerce transactions at any time, organizations struggle to understand how these channels affect sales, usage trends, and patterns. This webinar will explore how WSO2 BAM 2.0 can be used to capture mobile events, analyze mobile interaction patterns, and compare mobile campaign efficiency against traditional website traffic patterns. A real-world use case, an e-ticket booking service, will be used to demonstrate and analyze the mobile interaction patterns of WSO2 BAM. Jointly presenting the session will be Sinthuja Ragendran and Maninda Edirisooriya, WSO2 software engineers on the data technologies team. For more information, visit http://wso2.org/library/webinars/2012/12/enterprise-use-case-webinar-analyzing-effectiveness-mobile-web-channels-using-wso2-bam.

Scaling Up WSO2 BAM for Billions of Requests and Terabytes of Data
Big data adds complexity to operational monitoring, which requires IT organizations to implement a high-performance data capture framework to collect, filter and store enterprise business activity, as well as generate business insight. This webinar will examine how WSO2 BAM 2.0 handles high data volume scenarios. It also will explore how WSO2's scalable BAM architecture can capture high-throughput transaction data, process big data by scaling analytics, deliver rich visualizations, and achieve scalability through deployment patterns. Webinar presenter Buddhika Chamith is a WSO2 software engineer on the data technologies team. To learn more, visit http://wso2.org/library/webinars/2012/12/wso2-advantage-webinar-scaling-wso2-bam-billions-requests-terabytes-data.

WSO2 BAM Integration with Mule ESB
By monitoring service endpoints, enterprise service bus (ESB) servers, and mediation flows, IT organizations can proactively identify system failures and enable error recovery before they interrupt business operations. This webinar will examine how to monitor an ESB server with WSO2 BAM 2.0, as well as demonstrate the monitoring capability available when integrated with Mule ESB. Key topics include:
• Monitoring an ESB server's system resources (CPU usage, memory consumption) through JMX.
• Monitoring the statistics of deployed services through JMX.
• Using a high-performance, low latency, non-blocking, multi-threaded API to publish events from Mule ESB to WSO2 BAM 2.0.
• Capturing useful data by inspecting payloads of messages going through Mule ESB.
• Analyzing the captured data and visualizing it in dashboards.
• Real-time monitoring using complex event processing (CEP).

Webinar presenter Kasun Weranga is a WSO2 software engineer and a member of the data technologies team. To learn more, visit http://wso2.org/library/webinars/2013/01/wso2-advantage-webinar-wso2-bam2-integration-mule-esb.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

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Saaspose development team is thrill to announce the new release of Saaspose.Words. This new release allows appending a list of documents using Saaspose.Words REST API. Your application’s requirements can vary according to different scenarios in today’s web and mobile applications era. You may need to combine and merge many multiple documents into one single document. Saaspose.Words offers an important aspect of document manipulation; appending multiple documents in the cloud. Using Saaspose.Words in your applications, you can integrate cost effective and reliable features and get quality results as per your requirements. This REST API eliminates the need of putting in lots of manual work and efforts to append a list of documents. You can append a list of documents in a single document using Saaspose.Words REST API. You can upload all the input files on Saaspose storage and execute this feature. Once the files are appended in a single document, you can download the MS Word document from Saaspose storage or other supported file storages. You can also directly append multiple documents on your local system without using saving the files to the storage. It is a single call process that uses append document controller resource; it uploads the files to server, appends the files to the document, sends the converted file back as response stream and deletes the source files from the server. You can refer to our documentation that guides through the features and examples of Saaspose.Words. By using Saaspose.Words, you can append or merge multiple documents in a single document. Saaspose.Words offers various features for document creation and manipulation in the cloud. It is a platform independent API and you can integrate it with other file format APIs to use a variety of features for your applications in the cloud. We offer a free development account for evaluation of this feature to append a list of documents. You can sign up at Saaspose and get started with the feature rich APIs in no time.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Saaspose.Words documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Saaspose.Words for performing different tasks like the followings.

Saaspose.Words is a platform independent REST API used for cloud based document creation, manipulation & conversion. It allows converting document to DOC, DOCX, XPS, TIFF, PDF, HTML, SWF & many other formats. It can be used languages like .NET, Java, PHP, Ruby, Rails, Python, jQuery & many others. It can also be integrated with other cloud services to process documents. Other features include Create & modify watermark, content & formatting manipulation, mail merge abilities, reporting features.

La Jolla, CA, USA – MadCap Software, Inc., the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Visual Studio and Microsoft XPS, today announced that it has published a new case study on Ektron Inc. A leader in Web content management and Digital Experience management software, Ektron is using MadCap Flare to enrich the user’s experience with Quick Response (QR codes), pull-down menus, and content delivered in customers’ format of choice whether in print, on the Web or on mobile devices. Ektron also relies on MadCap Analyzer to review and improve the quality of its Flare-based content. The full Ektron case study is available at: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/casestudy/Ektron.aspx.

Ektron delivers one of the world’s premier platforms for creating, deploying and managing enterprise-scale, global, personalized websites. Some 3,700 customers and 12,000 public-facing websites use its software, and Gartner Inc. positioned Ektron in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2012 "Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management" report. Having built a strong brand around state-of-the-art software for the Web, Ektron relies on MadCap Flare and MadCap Analyzer to deliver best-in-class product Help and documentation in print, on the Web, and on mobile devices.

Using Flare and Analyzer to employ minimalism and eliminate redundancy, Ektron has cut its Web format output file count from 6,297 to 3,192 over the last couple of years, nearly a 50% reduction, as well as reduced its project file count by 26%, from 5,455 to 4,038. Other key benefits Ektron has realized include:

* Flare’s single-sourcing enables print, Web and mobile content to be published from the same project.

* Conditional text facilitates the ability to update content in line with new product releases.

* Separation of style and content, along with flexible style capabilities enabled Ektron to align the look of its HTML5 and mobile Help skins with its corporate website.

* Responsive MadCap support helps keep projects on track and on time.

MadCap Users at Ektron Share Their Experiences
“As more of our customers rely on smartphones, mobile documentation has become one of our primary delivery mechanisms. With Flare, we were able to create our first mobile Help implementation in less than two weeks, and single-sourcing allows us to update all of our Help formats, including mobile, concurrently,” said Mark Metcalfe, Ektron documentation director. “Flare lets us chunk information in new ways, so our customers can get what they want quickly.”

“I don’t think that there is anything from the competition like MadCap’s Analyzer tool for optimizing the quality and efficiency of content,” said Bob Bolt, senior technical writer at Ektron. “I also appreciate that the MadCap support team gets back to us in a timely manner, so we can remain on task and on schedule.”

“As a global leader in Web content management, Ektron understands how tightly a company’s brand value is linked to the ability to create a superior customer experience,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. “We are excited by Ektron’s success in using our state-of-the-art MadCap Flare to deliver the content to customers in their preferred format, whether it's a PDF, HTML5 Web Help or mobile Help. We are also thrilled by how Ektron is taking advantage of Analyzer to enhance the quality and efficiency of its documentation created in Flare.”

About Ektron
Ektron simplifies the creation, management and delivery of digital experiences for global organizations that are looking to drive revenue growth and improve customer satisfaction. Headquartered in Nashua, N.H., with offices in Australia, Canada and the U.K., Ektron has thousands of customers including: Dell, Las Vegas Sands, Microsoft, NASDAQ and National Health Services UK. For more information: www.ektron.com <http: www.ektron.com=""> .

About MadCap Software
MadCap Software, Inc. is a leading technical communication software firm specializing in integrated applications for end-to-end content development, delivery and management. MadCap’s software products provide state-of-the-art content workflow solutions for multi-channel publishing, including the Web, print, desktop and mobile. Through its strategic partner Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), MadCap delivers solutions optimized for Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and the .NET environment. Headquartered in La Jolla, CA, MadCap is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the documentation industry. Learn more about MadCap Software at www.madcapsoftware.com.

MadCap Software, the MadCap Software logo, MadCap Flare, and MadCap Analyzer are trademarks or registered trademarks of MadCap Software, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries.

Webinar on December 12, Will Examine How to Build on a Solid Open Source Foundation to Rapidly Deploy Innovative, Enterprise Business Solutions

Palo Alto, CA – December 11, 2012 – Open source brings innovation, cloud readiness, and transparency to enterprise solutions. However, organizations adopting open source solutions often have questions about licensing, performance, product features, and support. To help IT professionals address these issues, WSO2 and Wipro Technologies will jointly present a webinar on how to build on a solid open source foundation and enterprise implementations.

The one-hour technical session, “WSO2 and Wipro Joint Webinar - Growing Adoption of Open Source in the Enterprise," will be held on Wednesday, December 12, from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PST. For more information, visit: http://wso2.org/library/webinars/2012/12/wso2-wipro-joint-webinar-growing-adoption-open-source-enterprise.

The webinar will examine open source best practices for building a platform and support offerings that reduce risk and ensure project success. Additionally, the session will present adoption roadmaps guiding teams toward successfully implementing open source solutions. The webinar will explore how the award-winning WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform and WSO2 Stratos cloud middleware platform, combined with Wipro’s global IT expertise, offer enterprise open source middleware solutions and provide value-added services to customers.

Webinar Presenters
Chris Haddad is WSO2 vice president of technology evangelism. Chris works closely with developers, architects, and C-level executives to increase WSO2 technology adoption, improve the middleware platform, and maximize customer value. Prior to joining WSO2, Chris led research teams as a research vice president at the Burton Group and Gartner advising Fortune 500 enterprise organizations and technology infrastructure vendors.

Prajod Vettiyattil, lead architect, Wipro Technologies focuses on open source evangelization for Wipro’s enterprise business integration team. Prajod brings over 15 years of experience in designing and implementing J2EE and service-oriented architecture (SOA) based solutions for Fortune 500 organizations, including a leading Indian Telco and Canadian insurance provider.

About Wipro Technologies
Wipro Technologies, the global IT business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is a leading information technology, consulting and outsourcing company that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro Technologies delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360-degree view of "Business through Technology"—helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner’s approach to delivering innovation and an organization wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro Technologies has 135,000 employees and clients across 54 countries. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com or contact us at info@wipro.com

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

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Research Triangle Park, N.C.—December 11, 2012—Syncfusion Inc., a leading provider of components for Windows development, today announced the release of Orubase, a cross-platform mobile application development tool that enables .NET developers to easily build hybrid mobile applications. Orubase includes native wrapper frameworks for the iOS, Android, and Windows Phone platforms. As a result, .NET developers can leverage their existing web development skills to produce powerful, 100-percent native mobile applications that work on a broad range of devices.

A recent survey by analyst firm IDC, sponsored by SAP/Appcelerator, found mobile application developers' biggest challenges included dealing with multiple operating systems, dealing with multiple device classes, learning many languages (such as Java and Objective-C), building acompelling user interface/user experience, managing many code bases, and integrating data sources. For enterprises with Microsoft-related assets, Orubase solves all of these challenges.

Using the Orubase Wizard, developers can effortlessly build starter projects. The Wizard creates a template with native navigation components for mobile web, iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms. Generated projects are ready to run and can be customized easily within the respective IDEs.

“Orubase saves .NET developers time and makes their job easier by solving many of the challenges associated with fragmentation. It provides an extensive set of mobile web controls that can be directly used in web applications to produce stunning platform-specific user interfaces,” said Daniel Jebaraj, vice president of Syncfusion.

Key features include:

· Truly native navigation—key navigation elements that control the user’s navigation experience are implemented with native code.
· Complete bridge to native application programming interfaces (APIs) on each of the supported device platforms—common native APIs such as contacts, notifications, accelerometer, and camera are readily supported and work seamlessly with applications.
· More than 18 well-tested mobile controls havebeen implemented and work exclusively with the standard Microsoft ASP.NET MVC framework. Automatic platform-specific rendering enables mobile controls to automatically render iOS, Android and Windows Phone interfaces from a single view.
· Support for encryption—developers have access to advanced encryption support.
· Leverages the Microsoft data-access stack to integrate data from any source including Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Azure, SQLite, enterprise ERP systems, web services, and more. Use language-integrated query (LINQ) or any other API available from within the .NET environment to access data.

The web components and hybrid layer of Orubase are provided bySyncfusion. Orubase does not contain third-party tools or components, and isbacked by Syncfusion’s end-to-end technical support. Syncfusion recently used Orubase to build iOS and Android mobile applications for its online supportsystem, Direct-Trac, which are now available at Apple's App Store and Google PlayGoogle Play.

"Orubase enables us to deliver custom native apps within our DoctorDirect product line to our customers. We especially like how Orubase works with an MVC code base," said Dean Newton, Director of Business Development at NurseLineMD. "Syncfusion has an unparalleled track record when it comes to .NET development tools and their customer support team is a true partner when challenges present themselves."

About Syncfusion, Inc.
Syncfusion is the enterprise technology partner of choice for Windows development, delivering a broad range of .NET components and controls coupled with a service-orientedapproach throughout the entire application life cycle. Known for its extremely fast grid control and breaking new ground in ASP.NET MVC and HTML 5 development, Syncfusion has established itself as the trusted partner worldwide for use in mission-critical applications. In an effort to support small andgrowing businesses, Syncfusion recently partnered with Microsoft’s WebsiteSpark and BizSpark programs.

With releases every quarter, 24-hour support, and flexible licensing, Syncfusion meets the changing needs of enterprises across the globe. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Syncfusion has more than 7,000 customers including large financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and global IT consultancies.

We are thrilled to announce the release of Aspose.Email for SharePoint 1.5.0. With the release of this version, multiple emails can be converted simultaneously. In addition, this release also includes some important bug fixes. This release includes plenty of new and updated features as listed below

Conversion of multiple files at a time

Add “Select All” option to the Extract All Attachments feature

Support licensing via Aspose.Total.Sharepoint.License.wsp

Display Error message when attempted to send a file via FTP using a bad password\

Proper Evaluation message for Evaluation version

Issue with license application is now resolved.

The “Aspose Tools” menu appearance issues for all Libraries is now fixed

Could not sync list with POP3 server is now fixed.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Email for SharePoint documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Email for performing different tasks like the followings.

Saaspose.Pdf is a REST API that allows creating, editing and manipulating PDF files in the cloud. Whether its text extraction, image extraction or conversion to other file formats, Saaspose.Pdf has it all in this REST API. You can integrate its feature into your application using any programming language of your choice. Saaspose.Pdf is a suite of exciting features that helps to enhance the productivity of your application. One of these powerful but simple features is conversion of PDF files to other file formats and images using Saaspose.Pdf REST API. Saaspose.Pdf allows you to convert PDF file to HTML in the cloud. You do not need to manually convert the PDF file to HTML; Saaspose.Pdf is there to perform the required tasks in your applications. The conversion of PDF file to HTML generates a unique and permanent link. This link would always be located at the same URL. One of the benefits of this conversion is that you can utilize the code generated by the conversion and place it as per your requirements. As it is a REST API, you only need to consume its REST interface in your application. You can either invoke these REST operations directly using your own code or you can use a REST client for your particular language. You can directly convert PDF files to HTML on your local system using Saaspose.Pdf direct REST interface and SDKs without saving the file to Saaspose storage or any other supported storage. You can use the file path or stream to convert the local PDF file to HTML using Saaspose.Pdf REST API. The file is sent through request stream to Saaspose servers, processed and the output is sent back as response stream. In this case, the file is not saved on Saaspose storage. It is a single call process that uses convert controller resource; it uploads the file to server, converts the file to the desired format, sends the converted file back as response stream and deletes the source file from the server.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Saaspose.Pdf documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Saaspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.

Saaspose.Pdf is a REST API to create, edit & manipulate PDF files. It also convert PDF file to DOC, DOCX, HTML, XPS, TIFF etc. You can create a new PDF either from scratch or from HTML, XML, template, database, XPS or an image. A PDF file can also be rendered to JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and many other image formats. It works with any language like .NET, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python and many others. It is platform independent REST API & working with web, desktop, mobile or cloud applications alike.

Saaspose APIs have provided a platform for web and mobile developers to process the documents with a variety of features. The REST APIs can used to manipulate the documents in the cloud across any platform. We have provided SDK and REST examples for these REST APIs in different programming languages such as .NET, RUBY, Java and PHP that you can utilize in your application. There can be different scenarios while working with documents and their manipulation. You can split excel documents and save pages as PDF using Saaspose.Cells and manage annotations usingSaaspose.Pdf. Saaspose.Cells is a REST API that helps you create, manipulate and convert spreadsheets in the cloud. Saaspose.Pdf is a REST API for creating and editing PDF files and can also be used to convert PDF file to different file formats.

Using a combination of these two REST APIs, you can work with splitting workbooks and managing annotations. Using Saaspose.Cells REST API, you can split all or specific pages of an excel document and save each worksheet as PDF, image or any supported format .You can upload the workbook to Saaspose Storage using Saaspose REST API and split the uploaded workbook using Saaspose.Cells REST examples. You may choose to upload the document at Amazon S3 storage and split the worksheets into PDF files. You can also directly convert the presentations on your local system using Saaspose.Cells REST API and SDKs without saving the file to Saaspose Storage. Once you have performed the split document function, you can then manage the annotations of PDF file through Saaspose.Pdf. By integrating Saaspose.Pdf in your applications, you can get all annotations on a page in PDF file. You can also get the count of all annotations used in a PDF file. You may choose to get selected annotation from a PDF file. Once these annotations are extracted from the PDF file, you can use these annotations, share or print as required. For more information, please refer to Saaspose.Cells and Saaspose.Pdf documentation. Saaspose.Cells provides the best solutions to manipulate the worksheets in the cloud that lets you enjoy a variety of features designed to meet your requirements. Saaspose.Pdf is a feature-rich API that provides the solutions to work with PDF files using any programming language of your choice. Using a combination of these two REST APIs, you can easily achieve quality results of split excel documents and manage annotations of PDF files.

Jelastic, Inc., the company behind the ultra scalable and interoperable cloud hosting Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for Java and PHP applications, today announced that it has released a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, one of the most popular Java IDEs.

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA, also referred to as "the most intelligent Java IDE", features smart code completion, easier multi-language editing and a flexible cross-platform UI. With the Jelastic plugin, developers conveniently manage environments and deploy apps from the IDE, without having switching to a browser, resulting in significant time-savings.

"Jelastic is all about empowering developers and making hosting easy. With the Jelastic plugin, IDEA users can work with their development, test and production deployments without leaving their favorite Java IDE," said Jelastic COO Dmitry Sotnikov. "We are extremely excited about IntelliJ IDEA 12 release and proud to be a part of the IntelliJ IDEA family."

Key features of the Jelastic plugin for IntelliJ IDEA include:

- Ability to work with different hosting providers;
- Ability to deploy and redeploy applications;
- Ability to view and manage user environments;
- Ability to view logs (full logs and tail logs).

Jelastic´s plugin can be installed automatically from IntelliJ IDEA plugin repositories. Learn more in Jelastic´s documentation: http://jelastic.com/docs/idea-plugin. Jelastic also integrates with build systems such as Maven, Ant, Hudson and Jenkins, as well as the Eclipse IDE. Plugins for other widely used IDEs will be available soon.

About Jelastic:

Jelastic, Inc., based in Palo Alto, Calif., offers a Java and PHP server hosting platform for developers and hosting service providers. Jelastic is the only Platform-as-a Service (PaaS) offering designed specifically for hosting service providers to deploy and make available to their customers. Jelastic automatically scales Java and PHP applications and allocates server resources, thus delivering true next generation Java and PHP cloud computing. You can learn more about Jelastic or sign-up for the service for free at http://jelastic.com.

A country needs great national spirit and so does a city. That's the reason that Beijing, the capital of China announced "Beijing Spirit" on 2nd, November, 2011. Beijing Spirit includes Patriotism, Innovation, Inclusiveness and Virtue. This is the summary of the spiritual wealth formed in the development and practice of Beijingers. It has become a guide to Beijing citizens' practice since then. As an advanced local enterprise in Beijing, Raqsoft integrates Beijing Spirit into its long-term development strategy.

Innovation is the soul of a nation to progress and vitality source of a city. Innovation is also the essence of Beijing Spirit. Therefore, to make contribution to Beijing’s development, the enterprise should focus on innovation. Raqsoft, the supplier of statistical computing software attaches great importance to innovation at the very first beginning of its foundation. With 12 years development, it becomes the industry leading BI solution providers in China. Its two self-developed products, esProc and esCalc are the typical examples of innovation and represent the new generation of business intelligence tools.

"esProc and esCalc are creative in many aspects. Comparing with traditional statistical computing software, they have very friendly grid-style interface and are also capable of conducting complex computing," one developer of Raqsoft says, "Step by step computing mode without modeling is also another highlight. What's more, they are not only applied in IT industry, analysts without technical background can also use them well."

In addition to innovative products and advanced technology, Virtue also plays an important role in the development of an enterprise. Enterprises should operate with integrity and treat their customers honestly. As a responsible enterprise, Raqsoft always takes its customers' interest as priority and offers them the best products and service as it has promised. When it comes to inclusiveness, an enterprise shows this characteristic with adaptability of international market. Raqsoft undoubtedly does outstanding job in this regard. Its two products, esProc and esCalc are easy to use and flexible to meet requirements of various customers from different countries.

“Facts prove that Beijing Spirit is a great guide for enterprises. We take Beijing Spirit as the basic of our enterprise culture,” one director of Raqsoft says, “Through continuous technology and service innovation, we'll create new value for our customers. At the same time, we give sincere service to them.”

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Cells for SharePoint 3.0.0. This new Release includes many important enhancement and bug fixes. In this release, we have provided support for converting multiple files at a time and previewing documents within SharePoint. We’ve also improved file format conversion; for example, we have added more file formats for the conversion (XLSB, MHtml, XPS, TIFF, SVG, and DIF). We have also done some optimization work to improve the overall performance of the product in this release. The main improved features and bug fixes added in this release are listed below

Allow conversions of multiple files at a time

Document preview within SharePoint

Add support for new formats (XLSB, MHtml, XPS, TIFF, SVG, DIF) for conversion

Optimize Aspose.Cells for SharePoint component

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.

Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint is a flexible solution that allows developer to export lists, individual list item and SharePoint wiki pages to Pdf file format from SharePoint document library. Aspose.Pdf helps developers convert files to PDF from within their applications, without having Adobe Acrobat installed. Users only need to have MS SharePoint Server 2010 configured and running over their system to perform its installation. Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint supports SharePoint Foundation and Server.

New case study and NoSQL Roadshow presentation examine how Adfonic processes 100 billion ad impressions each month with Aerospike to determine the best mobile ad placements

Mountain View, CA – December 5, 2012 – The need to reach millions of mobile users with the right ad at the right time is upping the ante for scale and speed. No one understands that better than Adfonic. The company’s mobile advertising buying platform gives advertisers and agencies access to global mobile Web and application inventory through a single buying point. A new case study examines how Adfonic relies on the Aerospike real-time NoSQL database to process more than 100 billion global ad impressions per month across nearly 250 million unique mobile users. The full Adfonic case study is available at: http://www.aerospike.com/why-aerospike/customers.

Adfonic Case Study
The new case study examines the business and technology factors that led the company to choose Aerospike. It also reviews how Adfonic has deployed Aerospike clusters in its hub and three data centers to bring data closer to customers and ensure 100% uptime. Key benefits that Adfonic has realized with Aerospike include:
• Helps enable real-time processing of more than 100 billion mobile ad impressions each month.
• Reliably responds to queries within 5 milliseconds, while handling 100,000 queries per second.
• Supports time-to-live (TTL) values by automatically deleting expired data to maximize database efficiency and performance.
• Enables real-time replication and rapid synchronization between Adfonic’s hub and three data centers across the US and Europe.
• Ensures continuity and availability even if one data center experiences a failure.

NoSQL Roadshow Presentation
Wes Biggs, Adfonic co-founder and CTO, and Brian Bulkowski, Aerospike founder and CTO, will be featured speakers at the NoSQL London Roadshow being held December 6, 2012, at the Crowne Plaza London. Mr. Biggs will present the case study and discuss best practices in his session entitled, “Choosing the Right Database to Move Big Data in Real-Time.” Mr. Bulkowski will speak on “Aerospike: Breaking the Predictable Performance Barrier.” For more information, visit http://www.aerospike.com/events.

“Aerospike designed its database with our advertising use case in mind, which means we can set the database running and know that it’s going to do its job,” said Wes Biggs, Adfonic co-founder and CTO. “We like the kind of guarantees that Aerospike provides, and we have been pleasantly surprised that the database does everything Aerospike said it does. This is why we trust that Aerospike will be a valued partner for years to come.”

“As one of the world’s innovators in tailoring advertising solutions for the opportunities and demands of mobile advertising, Adfonic recognizes the value of using technology that is optimized for real-time marketing,” said Brian Bulkowski, Aerospike founder and CTO. “We are thrilled by Adfonic’s success in using our Aerospike database to expand the reach of brands and marketers with the growing ranks of mobile users worldwide through the predictable, real-time delivery of relevant ads.”

About Adfonic
Adfonic is a mobile advertising buying platform that gives advertisers and agencies access to global mobile Web and app inventory through a single buying point. Adfonic’s customers can run performance, rich media and video ad campaigns across a wide range of inventory sources to drive direct response, increase consumer engagement, and build brand awareness. Through Adfonic, advertisers and agencies benefit from access to over 100 billion monthly impressions. Their campaigns are also powered by pioneering technology, big data and smart algorithms, which optimize performance and drive the best results. Adfonic is headquartered in London with further operations in New York, Paris, Madrid, Munich, San Francisco and Singapore. To learn more, visit http://adfonic.com or http://blog.adfonic.com.

About Aerospike
Aerospike, Inc. offers the only real-time NoSQL database and key-value store that delivers predictable high performance for mission-critical, Web-scale applications. Aerospike’s flash-optimized, shared-nothing architecture scales linearly, consistently processing over 300k transactions per second per node with sub-millisecond latency. With automatic fail-over, replication, and cross data center synchronization, the Aerospike database reliably stores billions of objects and terabytes of data—while providing 100% uptime and a 10x improvement in TCO over other NoSQL databases. Customers accelerating their business with Aerospike include adMarketplace, eXelate, Sony’s So-net, and The Trade Desk. For more information, visit www.Aerospike.com.

Aerospike is a registered trademark of Aerospike, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

WSO2 Webinar on December 12, Will Examine How to Build on a Solid Open Source Foundation to Rapidly Deploy Innovative, Enterprise Business Solutions

Palo Alto, CA – December 5, 2012 – Open source brings innovation, cloud readiness, and transparency to enterprise solutions. However, organizations adopting open source solutions often have questions about licensing, performance, product features, and support. To help IT professionals address these issues, WSO2 and Wipro Technologies will jointly present a webinar on how to build on a solid open source foundation and enterprise implementations.

The one-hour technical session, “WSO2 and Wipro Joint Webinar - Growing Adoption of Open Source in the Enterprise," will be held on Wednesday, December 12, from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PST. For more information, visit: http://wso2.org/library/webinars/2012/12/wso2-wipro-joint-webinar-growing-adoption-open-source-enterprise.

Enterprise Open Source Adoption
The webinar will examine open source best practices for building a platform and support offerings that reduce risk and ensure project success. Additionally, the session will present adoption roadmaps guiding teams toward successfully implementing open source solutions. The webinar will explore how the award-winning WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform and WSO2 Stratos cloud middleware platform, combined with Wipro’s global IT expertise, offer enterprise open source middleware solutions and provide value-added services to customers.

The webinar will be presented by Chris Haddad, WSO2 vice president of technology evangelism. Chris works closely with developers, architects, and C-level executives to increase WSO2 technology adoption, improve the middleware platform, and maximize customer value. Prior to joining WSO2, Chris led research teams as a research vice president at the Burton Group and Gartner advising Fortune 500 enterprise organizations and technology infrastructure vendors.

Guest presenter Prajod Vettiyatil, Wipro Technologies lead architect, focuses on open source evangelization for Wipro’s enterprise business integration team. Prajod brings over 15 years of experience in designing and implementing J2EE and service-oriented architecture (SOA) based solutions for Fortune 500 organizations, including a leading Indian Telco and Canadian insurance provider.

About Wipro
Wipro Technologies, the global IT business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is a leading information technology, consulting and outsourcing company that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro Technologies delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360-degree view of “Business through Technology”—helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner’s approach to delivering innovation, and an organization-wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro Technologies has over 130,000 employees and clients across 54 countries.
For more information, please visit www.wipro.com, or contact us at info@wipro.com.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

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Saaspose development team is very happy to announce the Google Cloud Storage Integration with Saaspose REST APIs. Saaspose APIs provide flexible and cost effective solutions to small or medium business enterprises. You may choose to combine different APIs and select custom features for your applications to take your cloud computing experience to another level. We have been continuously putting efforts to provide you the best services and based on your feedback and suggestions we add different features to the APIs. At Saaspose, the support for 3rd party platforms has been always an important aspect. We have provided support for several storage options such as Windows Azure, Google Drive, Amazon S3 and Dropbox storage. We are pleased to announce that Google Cloud Storage is now integrated with Saaspose File Format REST APIs. You can integrate your current Google Cloud account with Saaspose cloud API and enjoy quick and easy access to your data around the world. You can configure the Google Cloud storage with Saaspose through our web interface in no time. Firstly, you need to create a project at Google Cloud and get the “Cilent ID” and “Client secret”. Then sign in at Saaspose and open “My Storage”, select “Google Cloud Storage” from “Create New Storage” list on Saaspose. On “Create Google Cloud Storage” page, provide the required data in the fields. You need to provide “Cilent ID” and “Client Secret”, and then click “Generate Token” to fill in rest of the fields. Now save the form and enjoy using Google Cloud storage to store and manage your application data quickly and easily. You can easily access the files uploaded on Google Cloud storage and process the documents in the cloud. You can upload your document including images, spreadsheets, presentations, MS Word documents etc. You can extract text, extract images, manipulate document properties, get formatting information and perform various other functions using Saaspose file format APIs. With integration of 3rd party platforms with Saapose APIs, you can continue using services of external storage providers and keep your files with other storage provides. This adds more flexibility to access your files from these storages and help you process them with a wide range of REST API features. Stay tuned to our blog for more updates and announcements.